Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
Only extremely senior first officers are flying with line check airman right now (top 10 percent in category). If you look at the top bids in PBS, every single one of the senior guys try to make every single one of their trips with a LCA to take a chance that some of their trips will be bought. If you change it back to recovery obligations, flying with LCA will go junior again. Everyone first officer on the list will br affected by this change.
Originally Posted by
3 green
Not true. I have a friend on the 737 in Atl, and he is approx. 50% relative position. He gets about 80% of his trips with LCA. So you dont have to be anywhere near super senior to do it. Plus a lot of LCA swap trips, and get trips with junior FO's when they do the swap.
Originally Posted by
Dorfman
Not true I am 50% in category and I have a at least 1 trip a month bought off for the last year. This is a GREAT deal for FOs and should not be changed
I think it's category dependent. The WS crowd that dropped their entire schedule and picked up trips on WS, like on Hockeys 88 category, was always senior and now bidding LCA is the best deal they've ever had- so I bet it is senior. It's better than rolling thunder, way way better.
I mean a cursory look at the 88 reasons report and I see guys in the 35% range getting LCA, but to have your entire line bought out from under you and picking up GS, that requires some seniority.
Originally Posted by
CheapTrick
I'd say it is more than being considered. In response to a question about what contractual inefficiencies the company wanted addressed in this negotiation - the first thing RA discussed was FO's staying home for OE's. Weird but true.
Which basically means we have something and they're asking that we have less of it. So why are we doing concessions?